Keira Knightley’s big break arrived in 2002’s Bend It Like Beckham , Gurinder Chadha’s comedy-drama about female footballers, which put her into the premier league. Before that, she’d had smaller parts in the 2002 gritty British drama Pure, about a mother with a heroin addiction, and the 2001 thriller The Hole, set in an eerie abandoned nuclear fallout shelter. Before that , she’d played Natalie Portman’s decoy in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace. The reasoning being, well … Portman and Knightley do look a bit similar, don’t they?

Since those days, Knightley has earned two Oscar, two Bafta and four Golden Globe nominations, for Pride and Prejudice , The Imitation Game , Atonement and the TV series Black Doves . She was nearly cast as Bond girl Vesper Lynd in 2006’s

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